About 20 dive sites will be lost, activists tell Green Prophet. ”If they build this bridge, coral reefs, endangered species and at least 22 dive sites will all be gone,” Ibrahim Mohamed, an activist with the anti-bridge group IBRedSea told Green Prophet.

Its not the first time that Green Prophet covers stories on how Egyptian scientists are applying science to public policy. In 2010 Ahmed Abdel Azim, mycologist at Suez Canal University and founder of the Arab Society for Fungal Conservation, published the first fully documented checklist of 2281 species of fungi in Egypt.
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Following Egypt’s recent revolution resulting in the Mubarek family being ousted from power , the country’s lucrative tourism industry has been struggling to find ways to entice foreign tourists to return. According to Egypt’s Tourism Minister, Mounir Fakhri Abdel Nour, the country has lost around $1.5 Hesham Nessim.
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Mohamed Kassas was a leading pioneer of Egypt’s environmental movement and a beloved mentor. . Dr. Mohamed Kassas was active until the end, says Mindy Baha El Din, Manager of Nature Conservation Egypt. Egypt’s Role Model. It has been a sad week for Egypt, and indeed, a sad week for us all. Desertification.
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Egypt is now close to awarding a contract to build a 1,000 megawatt wind farm, to be up and running in 2016, that it first announced last year. Related: Egypt Requests Bids to Get 2.7 In the past, Egypt has qualified for funding under The EU’s cap and trade plan using Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) funds.
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'Luxor home to some of Egypt’s greatest temples has something to solute over: the city has started its first 80kW solar energy plant, worth about $530,000 US to power lights at Luxor University and surrounding streets. The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that about 300,000 people in Egypt lack access to electricity.
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